Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Clean Energy (22)
- (-) Isotopes (10)
- Advanced Manufacturing (4)
- Biological Systems (1)
- Biology and Environment (27)
- Computational Engineering (2)
- Computer Science (3)
- Fusion and Fission (2)
- Fusion Energy (6)
- Materials (10)
- Mathematics (1)
- National Security (9)
- Neutron Science (2)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (8)
- Nuclear Systems Modeling, Simulation and Validation (1)
- Quantum information Science (1)
- Supercomputing (3)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Bioenergy (4)
- (-) Clean Water (5)
- (-) Composites (9)
- (-) Cybersecurity (2)
- (-) Isotopes (10)
- (-) Machine Learning (2)
- (-) Security (2)
- (-) Space Exploration (3)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (33)
- Artificial Intelligence (1)
- Big Data (2)
- Biology (3)
- Biomedical (5)
- Biotechnology (1)
- Buildings (19)
- Chemical Sciences (1)
- Climate Change (8)
- Computer Science (10)
- Coronavirus (6)
- Critical Materials (5)
- Decarbonization (12)
- Energy Storage (33)
- Environment (21)
- Grid (21)
- High-Performance Computing (1)
- Hydropower (2)
- Irradiation (1)
- Materials (15)
- Materials Science (10)
- Mathematics (2)
- Mercury (2)
- Microscopy (3)
- Nanotechnology (1)
- National Security (2)
- Net Zero (2)
- Neutron Science (1)
- Nuclear Energy (1)
- Polymers (5)
- Simulation (1)
- Statistics (1)
- Summit (1)
- Sustainable Energy (33)
- Transportation (36)
Media Contacts
Electric vehicles can drive longer distances if their lithium-ion batteries deliver more energy in a lighter package. A prime weight-loss candidate is the current collector, a component that often adds 10% to the weight of a battery cell without contributing energy.
Raina Setzer knows the work she does matters. That’s because she’s already seen it from the other side. Setzer, a radiochemical processing technician in Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Isotope Processing and Manufacturing Division, joined the lab in June 2023.
Carl Dukes’ career as an adept communicator got off to a slow start: He was about 5 years old when he spoke for the first time. “I’ve been making up for lost time ever since,” joked Dukes, a technical professional at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
It was reading about current nuclear discoveries in textbooks that first made Ken Engle want to work at a national lab. It was seeing the real-world impact of the isotopes produced at ORNL
Growing up in suburban Upper East Tennessee, Layla Marshall didn’t see a lot of STEM opportunities for children.
“I like encouraging young people to get involved in the kinds of things I’ve been doing in my career,” said Marshall. “I like seeing the students achieve their goals. It’s fun to watch them get excited about learning new things and teaching the robot to do things that they didn’t know it could do until they tried it.”
Marshall herself has a passion for learning new things.
Scientists at ORNL developed a competitive, eco-friendly alternative made without harmful blowing agents.
The presence of minerals called ash in plants makes little difference to the fitness of new naturally derived compound materials designed for additive manufacturing, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory-led team found.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists designed a recyclable polymer for carbon-fiber composites to enable circular manufacturing of parts that boost energy efficiency in automotive, wind power and aerospace applications.
Researchers at ORNL explored radium’s chemistry to advance cancer treatments using ionizing radiation.
What’s getting Jim Szybist fired up these days? It’s the opportunity to apply his years of alternative fuel combustion and thermodynamics research to the challenge of cleaning up the hard-to-decarbonize, heavy-duty mobility sector — from airplanes to locomotives to ships and massive farm combines.